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gh-108494: Argument Clinic: Document how to generate code that uses the limited C API (#108584) 

Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>
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The CLI supports the following options:
.. program:: ./Tools/clinic/clinic.py [-h] [-f] [-o OUTPUT] [-v] \
[--converters] [--make] [--srcdir SRCDIR] [FILE ...]
[--converters] [--make] [--srcdir SRCDIR] [--limited] [FILE ...]
.. option:: -h, --help
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A file to exclude in :option:`--make` mode.
This option can be given multiple times.
.. option:: --limited
Use the :ref:`Limited API <limited-c-api>` to parse arguments in the generated C code.
See :ref:`clinic-howto-limited-capi`.
.. option:: FILE ...
The list of files to process.
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#/*[python checksum:...]*/
.. _clinic-howto-limited-capi:
How to use the Limited C API
----------------------------
If Argument Clinic :term:`input` is located within a C source file
that contains ``#define Py_LIMITED_API``, Argument Clinic will generate C code
that uses the :ref:`Limited API <limited-c-api>` to parse arguments. The
advantage of this is that the generated code will not use private functions.
However, this *can* result in Argument Clinic generating less efficient code
in some cases. The extent of the performance penalty will depend
on the parameters (types, number, etc.).
.. versionadded:: 3.13
.. _clinic-howto-override-signature:
How to override the generated signature

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:ref:`Argument Clinic <howto-clinic>` now has a partial support of the
:ref:`Limited API <limited-c-api>`. Patch by Victor Stinner.
:ref:`Limited API <limited-c-api>`: see :ref:`clinic-howto-limited-capi`.
Patch by Victor Stinner.